Medical Device Electronic Engineer

Salary: £54,000 – £60,000 per year

Role: Medical Device Electronic Engineer

Job Purpose

The electronic engineer will be responsible for the specification, design, development, testing and design management of all of the electronics within the company’s laparoscopic visualisation platform. This ranges from miniaturised circuits embedded within single-use items, to more complex control boards.

The key responsibilities of this role will include:

• Working within a small team to develop system specifications and designs.
• Delivering high-quality schematics and PCB layouts.
• Delivering fast turn around proof-of-concept circuits, when appropriate.
• Delivering high-quality design documentation according to medical regulations.
• Contributing to role-specific R&D planning.
• Developing and performing testing, and other quality assurance tasks.
• Working with external suppliers for both prototypes and volume quantities.
• Debugging and fixing issues found from field testing and deployments. Working with management on managing and developing intellectual property.

Candidate Specification

Applicants must be EU nationals or have permanent leave to remain in the UK and should demonstrate that they possess the following attributes:

Essential Requirements

• Significant experience of digital circuit design and layout within Altium.
• Experience in implementing high-speed / high-bandwidth digital interfaces; ideally MIPI and PCIe. Familiar with system testing, and the requirements of IEC 60601.

Desirable Skills & Abilities

• Experience working under ISO 62304 and ISO 13485, and preparing associated documentation (risk management ISO14971, design and development procedures, change control, etc.)
• Detail-oriented, and willing to relentlessly optimise and miniaturise PCB layouts, in cooperation with mechanical design engineers.
• Familiar with designs that incorporate FPGAs.
• Familiar with non-standard PCB construction and assembly techniques.
• Familiar with EMI testing and reduction techniques.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, particularly when communicating technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Ability to self-motivate when working independently; prioritise tasks, and work effectively to manage and meet deadlines.
• Experience writing firmware for microcontrollers, and perhaps PC-based test applications.
• Willingness to provide constructive input into R&D strategy & planning meetings.
• Hold a first or upper second class degree in a relevant subject such as electronic engineering.
• Ability to learn new skills quickly and work with minimum supervision.
• Excellent report writing skills, and experience of MS Office.
• A basic knowledge of clinical and/or biomedical engineering. Fluent in English.

Personal Profile

• Personality: Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on high quality. A natural forward planner who critically assesses own performance. Mature, credible, and comfortable in dealing with company executives. Reliable, tolerant, and determined. Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person’s point of view. Well-presented and business like. Sufficiently mobile and flexible to travel up to a few days a week. Keen for new experience, responsibility and accountability. Able to get on with others and be a team-player in and thrive in a start-up environment.

• Personal Situation: Must be mature and domestically secure. Able to spend one or two nights away without upsetting domestic situation. Able to commute reliably to office base. Able to work extended hours on occasions when required.

• Must have clean or near clean driving licence.

• Management Ability: Though internal staff management is not initially part of the job, responsibility and opportunity could grow with the development of the business, for example, the prospect of recruiting and managing a small team of design engineers. Some people-management skills, experience and natural ability, will be useful.